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CDU Makes Forbes 2023 “Top-Four” List
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New President Appointed
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Faculty and Staff Gather to Profess Their Faith
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This year’s gala was our grandest event yet!
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High-Profile Professor to Teach New Graduate Course
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CST 630 Respect for Life, Sex, Marriage, and Parenting: An Integrated Catholic Approach, a new 1-credit graduate course, is being offered in the Winter I term from January 30th through February 24th. The timely course will be taught by Helen M. Alvaré, J.D., M.A., a well-known law professor, dean, and published author and speaker. She is currently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Robert A. Levy Chair in Law & Liberty, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. The course will explore the Catholic Church’s teachings concerning sex, marriage and parenting as part of Catholic social justice, so that students can communicate these more effectively in ways that are responsive to contemporary culture’s values, skepticism, and sometimes hostility. Students will learn to:- Explain the faith and reason informing the Church’s teachings on sex, marriage and parenting.
- Discuss the relationship between Catholic sex, marriage, and parenting teachings and the “architecture of the faith,” specifically, God’s identity, how He loves us, and how He wants us to love Him and one another.
- Describe the unity of Catholic teachings about sex, marriage, and parenting, and about social justice.
- Articulate contemporary secular objections to Catholic sexual expression teachings and how to effectively respond to these.
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Higher Learning Commission Accredits CDU
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Significant Grant to Fund New CST Educational Program
President Interviewed by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities
President Interviewed on Catholic Forum
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